The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will hold the next Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture Thursday, March 3, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Damaris Punales-Alpizar, assistant professor of Spanish, will give a talk titled “From Translation and its Aftermath: The Soviet Legacy in a Post–Socialist Cuba.”
In her lecture, Damaris Punales-Alpizar proposes an approach to the socialist literature written in Spanish that was consumed in Cuba from the 1960s to 1990s that explains the peripheral and central role that such literature had in the formation of a Cuban literary polysystem.
Here at Case Western Reserve University, Punales-Alpizar founded and directs the study abroad program to Cuba. Her books have largely focused on transatlantic influences on Cuban culture.
Registration for her lecture is available online.